ALT TEXT: Cartoon of two women in the backyard looking at clothes drying on the traditional washing line. One of them jokes: “It dries the washing using the very latest technology — a combination of solar and wind power”

  • sqgl@beehaw.orgOP
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    2 months ago

    If it was sunny then why didn’t your clothes dry? Why did you leave them overnight?

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      That’s part of the point. You have to be able to time it, and you need time to hang it and then take it out.

    • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      Clothes were hung up in the late afternoon. Fast-moving storms came in after dark. Things that were polyester or nylon were dry before the storms came in, cotton and cotton blends were not.

      I should add - the place where we hang laundry is under cover, so there’s no direct sunlight (plus, we live in a fully wooded area). But even covered, the change in ambient humidity was enough to prevent drying.